Posted on 03/06/2017 8:05:12 AM PST by Academiadotorg
He may have lost his bid for the Republican presidential nomination last year, but Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker remains the bete noire of the Left in one of its gestational cradles, particularly in the public school system.
"The Occupy movement didn't start on Wall Street," Governor Walker told the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). "It started on my street."
"The tipping point was when a bunch of protestors showed up dressed as zombies for a special Olympics event."
Similarly, he was familiar with the type of treatment U. S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos recently received when she attempted to visit a public school that blocked her entrance. "We once showed up at a public school where they had sealed the door shut," Governor Walker remembered. "We got the door off the hinges and went in there and did what we came to do—read to the kids."
In like fashion, as you can see from the academe blog maintained by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the higher education establishment is also unhinged by the existence of Governor Walker. Nonetheless, arguably his policies are student-friendly.
"We've frozen tuition four years in a row and in this budget we're actually going to lower it," Governor Walker told the crowd at CPAC.
Walker has a great future in the real GOP...
He was actually who I initially supported. No one can call him a do nothing. He challenged the entrenched authorities just like Trump is doing now.
He was my first choice too. I hope he can find something in the Trump administration. He was a neverTrump for a while, but he is a good fighter. I hope he can find a place in the new establishment
I supported him too, enduring months of unwarranted attacks from the Cruzers who ultimately hijacked my states (CO) caucuses, unintentionally giving a big boost to Trump.
Walker was, and is, strong but he would have collapsed long ago from the pressure that Trump seems to thrive from.
you’re right that Trump does draw strength from the fight, but I believe Walker does also. Look what he’s gone through as governor. He had to be tough to wage those fights and go through the recall election.
I hated how when he first announced there was all these stories about how he didn’t have a college degree. As if that’s the be all and end all.
Trump has a trillion dollar stimulus that includes free daycare... Amnesty to wall in illegal immigrants.. That doesn’t sound like challenging anyone. Sounds rather leftist and establishment to me.
I hope he can find a place in the new establishment
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Not unless he changes sides in the illegal alien war.
He was a NeverTrumper because he is a Cheap Labor Express Republican like McCain, Graham, Rubio, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Alexander, Flake, Murkowsky, Corker, Ryan and many others who want amnesty for illegal aliens.
He would not side with the citizens and the rule of law, that’s why his campaign went nowhere.
He was the one who hired Liz Mair and had to fire her when it got out.
Walker is also on the side of the illegal aliens and their employers and not on the side of the citizens and the rule of law.
That was his big error, I figure he came under some influence from people like Paul Ryan.
Gov. Walker is a Northerner and I don’t think understood the complexities of the situation, he is also a devoted public servant and probably had not pondered immigration and illegal immigration too much.
He’s shifted his position a few times on the subject.
Walker sure has put up with heavy pressure in Wisconsin, a recall vote, the occupation of the Capital. These may not be as bad as what Trump has gone through but there are not many other politicians who have gone through what Gov. Walker has after Trump.
Another thing, although Walker indeed, talked about immigration, illegal and so forth, thoughtlessly in my opinion, I think that still ended up being words. I’m not sure if he has ever done anything positive for illegals in the real life scheme of things. No bills offering unlimited green cards, more H1B1 visas or things like that.
I thought Walker the best of the traditional candidates. But we didn’t need a traditional candidate, just like we didn’t need a traditional president. We needed a game changer. If the boat can be righted Trump will do it. Once righted, we can consider more traditional men again in the future.
There is an organization called Voces de la Frontera in Wisconsin, Voices of the Frontier, that apparently thinks that is where the frontier of Mexico is. Started in 2000.
Illegal aliens have been a problem in Wisconsin for a while.
Except for those employing them.
Who pay the politicians.
Me too. Walker, then Cruz, then Trump. Never Hillary!
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